National History Day Research Resources
Reference Services Department
Topic:
William Lloyd Garrison
Created 10/2013
Print Resources
All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry
Mayer (1998)
Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children by Harriet
Hyman Alonso (2002)
Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison (1832)
Prospector and Interlibrary Loan
Prospector: http://prospectorhome.coalliance.org/
Prospector is a unified catalog of academic, public and special libraries in
Colorado and Wyoming. For items not available at the Denver Public
Library, search here first. Items can take 1-2 weeks to arrive.
WorldCat: http://www.denverlibrary.org/content/didnt-find-it
Use this national and international catalog to search for items not available
at DPL or in Prospector. You must fill out a one-time Request It registration
to place Interlibrary Loan requests. These requests may take 2-3 weeks to
arrive.
Databases/Digital Resources
To access the Denver Public Library databases:
www.denverlibrary.org
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Click on the “Research” tab
Click on “Databases A-Z”
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America History and Life
Gale Virtual Library
History Reference Center
Middle Search Plus for Middle School Students
New York Times Historical Backfile
Student Resources in Context (includes primary sources)
Student Resource Center (includes primary sources)
Keywords for Catalog and Database Searching
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Primary Sources
Letter from Frederick Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison, from Documenting
the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/support12.html
Collection of primary sources from Teaching American History.com
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/garrison/
Internet Resources
William Lloyd Garrison – Spartacus Educational
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASgarrison.htm
Biographical information from the Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0278
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
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https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Annotated Bibliography
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Google Searching
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government or academic webpages.
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returned results.
Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact
phrase in an exact order.
For more advanced Google searching tips, visit:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861
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